Fitting the January contest in the International Ski Federation’s international Big Air calendar — which runs from October through December across Europe and Asia — proved too difficult, said the Metro Denver Sports Commission’s Sue Baldwin, the principal organizer of last January’s $1.2 million festive spectacle of live music and flying snowboarders.

“If we wanted to do it again, they (the FIS) were looking at October through December, which doesn’t work because we could easily have a day like this,” Baldwin said Thursday, with temperatures hovering in the mid 50s.

But watch for something snowy in Civic Center Park in January 2013. An urban biathlon maybe, or an urban half-pipe contest or even a curling competition, Baldwin said.

“With an Olympic bid potentially in the future, we are looking for opportunities to do something different and big every year,” she said, noting Colorado’s interest in a possible bid for the 2022 Winter Games.

Colorado has no interest in bidding for the 2022 Olympic Games. Self-promoters, politicians and various folks who hope to use such a bid to loot taxpayers are interested. Colorado does not need to squander billions of dollars and disrupt the lives of it’s citizens to stage a sporting event that has become ridiculous. Please demonstrate to me the lasting benefits to Salt Lake City or Vancouver of hosting the Games? Skiers all over the world are already well aware of the fact we have some of the best skiing on the planet.

One person obviously can speak for all five million Coloradans. Clearly there would be no benefit to having the Olympics in Colorado… Certainly gaining federal financial support for a badly needed rail system connecting Denver to Summit County wouldn’t benefit anybody in the state. That sounds terrible. I’m so glad this guy was able to speak for all of us.

I agree we do not want the headache and wastefulness of an Olympics here. I’m sure a lot of people actually want the ski train (let’s call it what it is), but whoring our city out to achieve that end is not in our best interest.

That’s why Denver and Colorado will never be more than it is…because of the shortsightedness of people like you. You must have been one of the numb-nuts from back in ’72 when Denver was awarded the games and then turned it down. Do you like Beaver Creek? Because it was built for the Olympics. Denver wont get the games anyway because there are other cities much better equipped to handle it. Denver will forever wallow about in mediocrity.

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.